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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1900
Page
3
Ebert and Sons advertise a wide range of paints and supplies with prices for varnish stain four pint cans at 20 cents per pint and other items including furniture finishing top dressing and ready mixed paints priced per gallon from three to twelve dollars. completeness and purity guaranteed.
In Macon New Jersey and New York items describe disputes between white Wilarmson county residents and revenue officers over a suspected larceny case involving a Black man named Anderson. Crowds resisted arrest, pledging county unity to block improper detentions. Other briefs cover Newport auto races won by Vanderbilt and a Spanish American War Nurses Association formation in New York. Also notes sea side rifle competition results and Minister Wu Ting-fang’s return to Washington.
At Indianapolis on Sept 7 the United Mine Workers executive board weighed the anthracite strike risk and potential wage talks. President John Mitchell indicated no decision yet but a special order for the next session. reports from the bituminous fields show growing union strength. Delegates from Illinois and Ohio discussed funds and strategy as Nicholls and Duffy urged firm action, while others warned a strike could affect over a million workers.
New York Sept 7 local coal dealers monitor the conflict between anthracite miners and operators. Jeremiah Pangburn Jr secretary of the Coal Trade Protective association warned that a coal famine would ensue if the strike lasts beyond one month.
Vermont returns show Stickney leading governor race by 31,468 votes and a 30,192 margin. Grout and Dillingham jockey for Senate, with Prouty and Ross also active as backers dispute outcome. Separately, steel wage talks stall over min price and card rate, while Bryan wraps West Virginia tour with large crowds and rain. Racing track accident at Sheepshead Bay injures riders. Scranton bribery arrests tied to 1898 Latkawanna franchise. Molineux case prep moves toward court of appeals.
Reading Iron company of Danville announces wage reductions effective after September 16. Puddling base goes from four dollars to three dollars per ton, with proportional cuts across other departments. The action affects 600 workers.
Pittsburg and associated interests have ordered a fleet of ten freighters to sail from Lake Erie ports via the Welland canal to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and across the Atlantic. The project costs about 3.5 million dollars, with 19 vessels total planned, built at Lorain Cleveland and Detroit yards for ore and coal export. Major buyers include Carnegie and Rockefeller interests, signaling a broad export push supported by iron and steel leaders rather than rail tariffs.
Governor Roosevelt discussed charges against District Attorney Gardiner with Attorney General Davies and outlined plans to forward findings for action. Gold Democratic leaders named an executive committee and announced a campaign headquarters in New York to oppose Bryan. In Trenton a man died from stab wounds in a hospital after a deadly dispute with a fellow Italian, Rossi, who fled to Philadelphia.
Havana Sept 7 The mazor of Trinidad Santa Clara province wired Casilda to request aid after a cyclone destroys crops and leaves residents destitute. Authorities will attempt to address the emergency and relieve the affected district.
The article cites Atlantic City’s population at 27,838, with 13,055 in 1890, notes Cleveland’s support for Doyon, reports a fatal fire in McKeesport where Jessie Lee perished saving her two babies, lists Montana GOP nominees Folsom and Bennett, mentions a planned large British investment in Colorado mining, and records James McMahon gifting property to Catholic University along with cotton crop concerns and Guatemala business paralysis amid anticipated upheaval.
Sept 7 dispatches describe Germany ready to withdraw from Pekin with leaves of occupation reduced and hopes of a similar Britain stance. Lord Salisbury contemplates consulting allies as a new policy emerges. Japan signals troop withdrawal if guarding forces remain and China requests negotiations for peace. Li Hung Chang urged Britain US and Japan to open plenipotentiaries to peace talks.
Washington reports that France leans toward remaining forces at Pekin, aligning with Russia. Germany also favors staying, with Austria and Italy likely to follow. Britain’s stance unclear though expected to parallel the remain-at-Pekin position. Japan may also stay, while the United States signals possible Russia alignment unless others seek change.
Isaac Kaufman was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hitchcock on a jewel smuggling charge and held in $500 bail for examination on September 18. He arrived from Boremem on the Lahn and claimed no duties due, but jewelry was found concealed under his coat lining.
An epidemic of dysentery in virulent form prevails at Yocumtown, a village in this county, with 17 deaths within three weeks. Local physicians have summoned outside help as research and guidance to check the disease are sought, affecting old and young alike.
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